--- title: "Event Highlight Maker: talks and panels to shorts | Cliplala" canonical_url: "https://cliplala.com/tools/event-highlight-maker" summary: "Turn a recorded talk, panel or keynote into highlight shorts. Ranked with reasons, cropped to the speaker, captioned, queued to 10+ platforms. 60 min free." --- # Event highlight maker for talks, panels and keynotes > Upload the event recording. Cliplala finds the lines people will quote, crops each one to the speaker on stage, burns in the captions, and ranks them. A day of sessions becomes a week of posts. ## How do I use the event highlight maker? A keynote, a panel, a fireside chat, a workshop. Hours are fine. The picker scores the commentary and the crowd, snaps each cut to a sentence, and drops the clips that need the build-up you cut. Ranked with reasons. Queue to TikTok, Shorts, Reels and 10+ platforms through Schedulala. Start at https://cliplala.com/tools/event-highlight-maker: paste a link, or drop the recording, press "Make event highlights", and the first 60 minutes of video are free with no card. ## What are the steps? 1. **Upload the recording.** A keynote, a panel, a fireside chat, a workshop. Hours are fine. 2. **Moments are found and cut.** The picker scores the commentary and the crowd, snaps each cut to a sentence, and drops the clips that need the build-up you cut. 3. **Queue the highlights.** Ranked with reasons. Queue to TikTok, Shorts, Reels and 10+ platforms through Schedulala. ## What does it do? ### Highlights that make sense without the session A highlight watched cold needs its own setup. Each clip is checked for that and dropped if it leans on the minute before. Cuts are padded to word boundaries in the commentary, so the call is never clipped mid-word. ### Cropped to the speaker on stage A stage wide shot has to lose most of its width on the way to 9:16. The tracker follows the speaker and keeps one crop per shot, so a walk across the stage stays in the short; a cut to the slides gets its own crop. [Game and cam together](https://cliplala.com/tools/gaming-clip-maker) ### Captions carry the line A talk's best moment is a sentence. Word-level captions, current word lit, burned into the file so the feed shows it muted. [More on captions](https://cliplala.com/tools/ai-caption-generator) ### Metered on recording hours Cliplala meters the recording you upload, not the shorts it makes. Lite is $14 a month for 4 hours; Pro is $78 for 25. Every plan posts to 10+ platforms, and every plan from Starter up includes seats for a team. The first 60 minutes are free, with a small watermark on the clips; paid plans have none. [Full pricing](https://cliplala.com/#pricing) ## Who is it for? ### Conferences: Every session, cut to its best line A keynote or a talk is scored on the line and the room. The crop follows the speaker; the captions carry the sentence. ### Panels: The answer, with the person who gave it Two or three people on stage get a stacked layout when they trade lines and a solo crop when one holds the floor. ### Workshops: The one thing people wrote down A workshop holds a few sentences people will screenshot. The picker finds them; the crop stays on whoever is talking. ## What is included? - **Ranked with reasons.** Every short says why it was picked, so you can disagree with it. - **Bad cuts dropped.** A short that starts or ends mid-thought does not reach you. - **Face tracking.** The crop follows the person, through cuts and camera moves. - **Layout per moment.** Solo, stacked or split, chosen from what is on screen about once a second. - **Burned-in captions.** Word-level, active word highlighted, ten styles. Rendered into the file. - **Link or file.** Paste a YouTube link, or upload the file straight from your machine. - **Queue to 10+ platforms.** Post from the results page. No export step. - **Priced on hours.** Metered on source video. From $14 a month for 4 hours. ## What does it not do? - A fixed number of shorts. De-duplication and the coherence check drop shorts on purpose; a tight talk yields more than a rambling one. - A score that predicts views. Every short gets a rank and a written reason, and you can disagree with it. - A time. Long sources take longer; you see shorts as they finish. ## What else do people ask? ### How do I make highlights from an event recording? Upload the full recording or paste a link. Cliplala scores the moments from the commentary and what is on screen, cuts each to sentence edges, crops it vertical around the action or the person, burns in captions, and ranks them. Queue the top ones to 10+ platforms through Schedulala. ### Does it make one long highlight reel or many short clips? Many short clips, each one a single moment, ranked. That is what the vertical feeds want. A single long reel stitched from them is not part of this flow today. ### Does it work on a multi-camera event edit? Yes. Scene cuts are detected and each shot gets its own crop, so a switch from the speaker to the slides and back does not drag the crop across the stage. ### How many shorts do I get from one video? It depends on the video. The engine keeps the moments that stand on their own and drops near-duplicates and cuts that start or end mid-thought, so a tight talk can return more usable shorts than a rambling one. You can set a target count and a clip length before it runs. ### How long are the shorts? Between 15 and 90 seconds by default, snapped to sentence edges so nothing is cut mid-word. You can set the range before the run. ### Is the highlight video maker free? Your first 60 minutes of source video are free with no credit card. Those shorts carry a small Cliplala watermark. Paid plans start at $14 a month for 4 hours of video and have no watermark. ### What can I upload? A YouTube link, or a file: mp4, mov, m4v, mkv or webm. Uploads go from your browser straight to private storage, so a long file does not have to pass through a form. ### Is my video used to train anything? No. Your uploads are used to make your shorts and for nothing else. Source files are deleted after 30 days; the shorts stay. ## Related tools - [Long video to short video converter](https://cliplala.com/tools/long-video-to-short-video-converter): Any long video in, ranked 9:16 shorts with captions out. - [AI clip maker](https://cliplala.com/tools/ai-clip-maker): Ranked clips with a reason for each pick, cropped and captioned. - [Stream highlight maker](https://cliplala.com/tools/stream-highlight-maker): Highlight shorts from a stream VOD, ranked, cam kept in frame. - [Podcast clip maker](https://cliplala.com/tools/podcast-clip-maker): Turn a two-hour episode into ranked shorts with both hosts in frame. - [AI caption generator](https://cliplala.com/tools/ai-caption-generator): Word-level captions, active word lit, rendered into every short. - [YouTube to Shorts converter](https://cliplala.com/tools/youtube-to-shorts): Paste a YouTube link, get ranked Shorts, queue them back to the channel. Make highlights from the last event 60 minutes free, no credit card. Ranked, with the reason.